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Cliché in British culture

Acacia Avenue is a cliché in British culture.[1] It is a placeholder name for an unexceptional middle-class suburban street.[1] It is named for Acacia, a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs indigenous to Australia and New Guinea but grown ornamentally in the UK.[2]

There are at least sixty Acacia Avenues in the United Kingdom,[1] nine of them within Greater London.[3]

In Canada, the residence of the Leader of the Official Opposition, Stornoway, is located on Acacia Avenue in Ottawa, Ontario.

Examples of real-life Acacia Avenues:

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  Acacia Avenue, Newport
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  Acacia Avenue, Brent
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  Acacia Avenue, Wembley
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  Acacia Avenue, Wraysbury
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  Acacia Avenue, Hove
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  Acacia Avenue, Hillingdon
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  Acacia Avenue, Hengoed
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  Acacia Avenue, Sunderland
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  Acacia Avenue, Undy
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  Acacia Avenue, Port Talbot
• 29 Acacia Avenue is a play by Denis and Mabel Constanduros.
• English heavy metal band Iron Maiden's song "22 Acacia Avenue" is about a fictional brothel in an innocuous London house.
• Comic character Bananaman lives at 29 Acacia Road.
• In "Her Majesty's Secret Service, after James Bond proposes to Tracy, (James): "Mr. and Mrs. James Bond." (Tracy): "of Acacia Avenue, Turnbridge Wells".

1. ^ a b c "The street whwere you live". BBC News. 21 July 2006. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
2. ^ "Acacia dealbata". BBC Gardeners' World Magazine. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
3. ^ Master Atlas of Greater London

• "Lives of Acacia Avenue revealed" - BBC News
• "Acacia Avenue - where they never grumble" - The Guardian